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Right-Wing 'Experts' Justify Profiling, Body Scanners with Familiar Paranoid Rhetoric

Gavin Dahl, Raw Story. January 4, 2010.

A retired general makes egregious claims that that "in the next 30-100 days," there is "very high probability a US airliner will come down."

Michael Chertoff's Pushing "Full-Body Scanners" for Airports but He Has a Conflict of Interest

Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: World. January 2, 2010.

The media is not calling him on it like they should.

Janet Napolitano Is Just Finessing Bush's Crackdown on Migrant Workers

Tom Barry, Americas Policy Program. February 20, 2009.

Napolitano doesn't have the power to change immigration law. She's there to administer the department, enforce the law, and keep the homeland secure.

The Right's Jack Bauer Fantasy: 'Clip the Electrodes to His Balls and Turn on the Juice'

Larry Beinhart, AlterNet. February 5, 2009.

"24" helped brainwash Americans to accept the brutal, illegal actions of the Bush administration.

Bush's Top Immigration Official Loves to Hire Undocumented Workers

EZ Writer, Daily Kos AlterNet: Immigration. December 11, 2008.

This pretty much sums up the Bush administration.

Silence on Immigration

David Bacon, Foreign Policy in Focus. October 28, 2008.

National political campaigns say less and less about immigration enforcement.

Bush Policy: Quick Border Fence Trumps the Environment

Liliana Segura, AlterNet. April 3, 2008.

Current controversy aside, the border "fence" is one of those harebrained schemes that might be funny if it weren't so cynical and racist.

Chertoff Defends Crony Subordinate Who Endorsed Racist Halloween Costume

Amanda Terkel, ThinkProgress AlterNet: PEEK. November 7, 2007.

Amanda Terkel: Homeland Security has destroyed at least one photo of Myers with an employee in blackface and has refused to let CNN see other pictures from the party.

Hurricane Katrina: Who's to Blame for this Unnatural Disaster

Ari Kelman, The Nation. August 29, 2007.

A batch of new books on Hurricane Katrina investigate who is responsible for the tragedy.

Olbermann: "Does Bush Have Any Friends Left?" [VIDEO]

Adam Howard, AlterNet: Video. August 28, 2007.

Now that Rove and Gonzales are gone, Olbermann and James Moore, the author of "Bush's Brain", discuss the last of the Texas cronies, Clay Johnson III, who Bush hopes to put in charge of Homeland Security.

Bush Plans To Install Inexperienced Crony As Homeland Security Chief

Pam Spaulding, AlterNet: PEEK. August 27, 2007.

Pam Spaulding: Clay Johnson III went to both prep school and college with Bush and he may be put in charge of Homeland Security. Be afraid, be very afraid.

The Chiquita Story: How the Times Goes Soft on Corporate Crime

Charlie Cray, Huffington Post. August 27, 2007.

In the New York Times' bizarro world, a multinational caught financing right-wing terror groups is only looking out for its workers.

Chertoff Is Just As Incompetent As Gonzales

Amanda Terkel, AlterNet: PEEK. August 27, 2007.

Amanda Terkel: Chertoff's tenure at Homeland Security has led to frequent calls for his resignation, yet he appears to be the frontrunner to replace Gonzales as attorney general.

Gonzales Resigns! Good Riddance!

Steve Benen, AlterNet: PEEK. August 27, 2007.

Steve Benen: Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is finally stepping down. Will Michael Chertoff replace him?

Texans to Bush: Get Off Our Lawn!

Marisa Treviño, AlterNet: PEEK. August 16, 2007.

Marisa Treviño: Texas activists, politicians and local law enforcement are uniting to oppose Bush's plans for a border fence in their backyard.

Conan O'Brien Presents Homeland Security's New Terror Warnings [VIDEO]

Adam Howard, AlterNet: Video. July 18, 2007.

Now that Michael Chertoff's gut is considered a viable source on terrorism, Conan offers up a few new system of terror warnings to coincide with Chertoff's revelations.

Al Qaeda in Michael Chertoff's Stomach: The Terror of a 'Gut Feeling'

Keith Olbermann, Countdown. July 16, 2007.

After saying he had "gut feeling" there would be a terrorist attack this summer, Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff makes Keith Olbermann wonder what it will look like when it comes out the other end.

Olbermann: Chertoff Is a "Hunch-Driven Clown"

Guest Blogger, AlterNet: Video. July 13, 2007.

David Edwards and Josh Catone: Keith Olbermann ridicules Homeland Security head Michael Chertoff's "gut feeling" we'll be attacked by terrorists this summer.

Santorum and Chertoff Hope America Gets Attacked This Year

Guest Blogger, AlterNet: PEEK. July 11, 2007.

Gavin McNett: The Right Wing has decided the only way to increase their wilting political fortunes right now is to insist that there's an imminent terrorist attack.

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